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[ Acts No. 1819, April 30, 1908 ]

AN ACT EXTENDING TO DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHT, THE TIME WITHIN WHICH REAL PROPERTY WHICH HAS BEEN FORFEITED TO MUNICIPALITIES FOR NONPAYMENT OF TAXES MAY BE REDEEMED.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:

SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered Twelve hundred and ninety-eight, as amended by Acts Numbered Fourteen hundred and seventy and Fifteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby further amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 2. All real property which has heretofore been forfeited, or which shall during the year nineteen hundred and eight be forfeited to The Government, in accordance with law, shall be redeemable by the owner thereof or his legal representative at any time during the calendar year nineteen hundred and eight, upon the payment to the provincial treasurer or bis deputy of the amount of taxes and penalties due thereon, together with six per centum interest from the date on which the taxes became delinquent to the date of payment, and of all costs due thereon. In case that the original owner or bis legal representative shall redeem property forfeited to municipalities as herein provided, the provincial treasurer or his deputy, in the name of such treasurer, is hereby empowered to execute and shall execute a deed in form and. effect sufficient under the laws of the Philippine Islands to reconvey the property to the original owner or his legal representative."
SEC. 2. All Acts or parts of Acts contrary to the provisions of this Act are repealed.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, April 30,  1908.
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